Improvement in ironing-boards



MARY A. BRYANT.

IRONING-BOARDS.

Patented Aug.15, 1876.

N, PETERS. PHDTO-UYHDGRAFMER, WASHINGYON, 0 C

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIC'E.

MARY A. BRYANT, OF FREEPORT, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN lRONlNG-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,034, dated August 15, 1876; application filed June 21, 1876.

State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ironing-Boards, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference li'eing had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to provide, in a compact and convenient form, an ironing-board for the ironing of shirts, skirts, and other articles which require the board to be inserted within them; and it consists in the reversible shirt-board and an adjustable skirtboard, hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; and Fig. 3 is a top view of the covered shirt-board.

My reversible ironing-board is represented as secured to a table, a, by means of a.clamp, b, operated by an ordinary set-screw. The shirt-board, which is intended to be revelsible, consists of the two boards, 0 and 61, connected together, and supported and braced at or near one end by means of a double bracket, cf. These two boards are of a uniform size and conformation, and one of them can be covered for ordinary ironing purposes, while the other, for use as a polishing-board, is not covered. The covered board is shown in Fig. 3.

It is apparent that after using the ironingboard it is only necessary to reverse my combined board to secure the use of the polishing-board, and that the peculiar shape of the centrally-sustaining braekctf will allow these boards to be inserted in the shirt or other article almost if not quite their entire length.

The skirt-board g is provided with flanged rails h on its under side, arranged so that it will slide over and upon the shirt-board d, and be held thereto by said flanged rails, the skirt-board thereby being removable and adjustable.

This board is intended to accommodate 1adies skirts and other large articles, and its size is cont'ormed to that purpose.

I claim as my invention- 1. The reversible shirt-board, composed of the two boards 0 d, and bracket cf, constructed substantially as described.

2. The combination of the reversible shirtboard 0 cl cf, with the sliding adjustable skirtboard g, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

MARY A. BRYANT.

Witnesses:

H. G. SLEEPER, MARY G. HICKS. 

